Test wrote:
> All,
>> I am trying to build a custom kernel, following the howto and some stuff
> i found on the forums (mkspec.patch)
>> 1. the mkspec.patch gives an error:
>> [root at centos linux]# patch -p1 < mkspec.patch
> (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
> patching file scripts/package/mkspec
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 103 with fuzz 2 (offset 22 lines).
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 115.
> 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file scripts/package/mkspec.rej
>>> 2. When i create an rpm out of the standard configfile (/boot/config....)
> the RPM file created is about 100mb which to me seems a bit large...?
>>>Personally I have always compiled my kernels a different way.
Grab the sources from www.kernel.org.
# tar -jxf kernel-2.6.20.tar.bz2
Decompress them.
# make menuconfig
<change your settings appropriately, often the only thing I change is
the CPU type>
(if this doesnt run properly try yum install ncurses-devel)
Exit out of make menuconfig
# make bzImage
# make modules
# make modules_install
# make install
If you have a dual core machine run each make command after menuconfig
with -j2, replacing the number 2 with the amount of cores you have.
This will run multiple compile jobs at once to save time.
Usually works ok for me - tho I never need to distribute my kernels so
your milage may vary.
My first post to the list.
Alan